Reply #54: I would like to see Obama be the Vice Presidential [View All]

[Cleita]

pick of whoever is the nominee. If it's Hillary she probably will pick him if she's smart. It will give him a much better chance of becoming the first African American President than being elected now. If Obama is smart, he'll pick Edwards. He might beat McCain then.

As I said in another post, there are a faction of working middle class Americans who don't consider themselves Republicans but Independents, but they have overwhelmingly voted for Republicans in the past decades because they are fairly uninformed and will believe anything at face value that the Republican candidates tell them. This is why you have predominantly red states with these voters. I know I lived in one of them Idaho for five years. I worked and lived alongside these people and was appalled by how easily they were duped by their politicians. Larry Craig was once my senator, but I didn't vote for him.

They need to be told what to do and they will vote for McCain because he represents that father figure to them. They have learned that Bush is basically evil and dragging the country down the drain so McCain represents a change to them not a drastic change though which suits them. Edwards appeals to them because of his working class background and they could cross over and vote for him instead of McCain. But you are right, they won't vote for a woman for President and they won't vote for Obama, not because he's African American but because he's too eloquent and they don't trust people with really good English. I know I'm going to get a rash of white outrage by stating this but it's true.